Word: hating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, several incidents targeted at women's, Jewish and gay and lesbian groups reveal another kind of tension. During the 1987-'88 academic year, individual members of the gay and lesbian community received unsigned hate mail...
When John took the papers to court, the informant who provided the journals with the stories testified that "I've never even met Elton John and in fact I hate his music," Lewis said...
...student said that a similar mix of ideals and real considerations had caused the protests. "The students hate the government," he said. "They want to live in a democracy. After ten years, they can't see any change in China...
...tenor of Japan-bashing is often xenophobic, and can border on the racist. Two years ago, when Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, who is of Japanese descent, chaired the Senate Select Committee in the Iran-contra hearings, Congress was bombarded with hate letters, telegrams and phone calls that assailed him as "that yellow bastard." Says Japanese-born Aki Yoshikawa, research director of the University of California's Berkeley Roundtable on International Economics: "There's definitely an element of racism among many people who criticize Japan. Something about Japan is alien to them...
...Gollub, who was born of Jewish parents in Philadelphia, managed despite that fact to become Grand Dragon of the Virginia chapter of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1985 he was dismissed by Virgil Griffin, the self-proclaimed national leader of the anti-black, anti-Semitic hate group. Gollub contends that it was not his Jewish origins that led to his ouster, but an intra-Klan factional dispute. Undeterred, Gollub moved on to Mississippi and snaked his way back into becoming that state's Klan leader. Last week Griffin fired him again, this time citing Gollub...